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Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy
Robert B. Pippin
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Paperback. Explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks' "Red River" and John Ford's "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" and "The Searchers". The author treats these films as sophisticated mythic accounts of a key moment in American history. Series: Castle Lectures Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, 52 black-&-white illustrations + 14 colour images. BIC Classification: APFN; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 144 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
In this pathbreaking book one of America’s most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks’ Red River and John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Searchers.
Robert Pippin treats these films as sophisticated mythic accounts of a key moment in American history: its “second founding,” or the western expansion. His central question concerns how these films explore classical problems in political psychology, especially how the virtues of a commercial republic gained some hold on individuals at ... Read more
In this pathbreaking book one of America’s most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks’ Red River and John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Searchers.
Robert Pippin treats these films as sophisticated mythic accounts of a key moment in American history: its “second founding,” or the western expansion. His central question concerns how these films explore classical problems in political psychology, especially how the virtues of a commercial republic gained some hold on individuals at ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Castle Lectures Series
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300172065
SKU
V9780300172065
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About Robert B. Pippin
Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago.
Reviews for Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy
"A trenchant and illuminating study of three great Westerns and a convincing case for their importance both to political psychology and to our own self-understanding as American citizens."—C. D. C. Reeve, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Robert Pippin's study of three great Westerns is a fine meditation on the place of heroism in democracy and the ... Read more